Tonight’s the night. Starting at 9 p.m. CST on Panini America’s BlogTV channel, five months of intense anticipation pays off for anxious collectors who’ve been waiting since the releases of 2011-12 Past & Present Basketball, 2011-12 Limited Basketball and 2011-12 Gold Standard Basketball to find out the identity of their 2011 NBA Draft Pick Autograph Redemptions.

The names of the 35 players featured on the 2011 NBA Draft Pick redemptions — card #’s XRCA through XRCII in each of the three aforementioned products — already are known and listed below. It’s exactly which card number will be assigned to which player that will be determined tonight.

So beginning at 9 p.m. CST, we’ll call out the players listed below one by one, beginning with the last player on the list (Lavoy Allen) and working in reverse order until we get all the way up to 2011 No. 1 overall pick Kyrie Irving. With each player, we’ll reach into a box of sealed envelopes, grab one and open it, revealing the card number for that particular player.

The suspense, especially as we get toward the end of the checklist, should be absolutely fascinating. So join us tonight for all the fun. We’ll be posting the results right here on The Knight’s Lance and on our Twitter feed, too.

We’ll see you in a few hours. Until then, here’s the list of 35 players we’ll be drawing from: